the lincoln county and mescalero apache tribe

The LincoLn counTy and
MescaLero apache Tribe
Honor List
The Lincoln County and
Mescalero Apache Tribe
Honor List
Men from Lincoln County, New Mexico,
and the Mescalero Apache Tribe
that died in
World War I,
World War II,
the Korean War,
the Vietnam War,
US Military Deaths (1980–2000),
and the Iraq War.
Publisher: Walter Limacher
Hondo, New Mexico
© 2012
ISBN: 978-0-615-59397-5
Library of Congress number 2001 131332
1st Edition
August 2012
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On opposite page: A drawing, contributed, and created especially for the Lincoln County and Mescalero Apache Tribe
Honor List. “The drawing is based on an extraordinary photo of two Marines during the Ghosin Campaign against the
Chinese.” The artist David Rogers, grew up in Lincoln County, at San Patricio, on the Sentinel Ranch. He is the son of
important American artists Peter Rogers and Carol Hurd Rogers and is the grandson of Lincoln County’s legendary
artists, Peter Hurd and Henrietta Wyeth Hurd. David Rogers a talented artist in his own right, now lives and works in
Chicago, Illinois.
Edited by:
Albuquerque Public Library, Special Collections Library Files, Howard W.Henry
American Battle Monuments Commission
Bataan Memorial Military Museum and Library, Jeronimo R. Padilla
Eastern New Mexico University Ruidoso Librarian, James R. Pawlak
Walter Patrick Limacher
Lincoln County Clerk, Martha McKnight Proctor*
Lincoln County Magistrate Judge, Division 1, Honorable Martha McKnight Proctor*
Lincoln County Historical Records Clerk, Karen Mills
Peter J. Linder, National expert, author, archivist, World War 1
National Personnel Records Center, Virginia A. Barrett
J. W. Runningwater
United States Department of Defense, Roger D. Jorstad
United States Department of Defense, Tom Campbell
University of New Mexico Printing Services, Robert E. Sanchez
University of New Mexico Printing Services, Tim Jarigese
*Special appreciation and gratitude are given here to Martha McKnight Proctor. She was Lincoln County
clerk for fourteen years and is now Lincoln County magistrate judge, Division 1. Her unique knowledge
of Lincoln County families and her genuine compassion for the families of the fallen have made this
memorial a reality.
Dedicated
In Deepest Gratitude and Solemn Tribute to the men
from Lincoln County and the Mescalero Apache Tribe
that died for America, Peace and Liberty.
Those Brave, Heros and Patriots that never came home.
­— The year 2012
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A drawing by Alex Sosaya of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Alex was so moved by the J. W. Runningwater poem, “War,”
that he drew a beautiful drawing to complement the poem. It was created especially for the Lincoln County and
Mescalero Apache Tribe Honor List by this very talented artist from Santa Fe.
War
I smell the moist fresh air coming off the river.
As I feel us gaining in elevation toward the homeland,
A smile crosses my face as
a sensation of comfort overwhelms me.
A coolness of air crosses my body,
chills replace heartache,
good feelings replace the negative.
I visualize a mountain—not just any mountain,
but what is called “Round Mountain”—
with a very tall cross securely standing on top of it
as a guide to the people returning home
after a safe journey.
The security and peace
it represents is not far from here.
As a child I remember passing it many times.
Now times have passed.
I served my country proudly.
I shared many hours with friends
who are still serving my country.
I shared my determination to succeed
and preserve life for others to live.
My efforts were shared with all who have served and will serve
for the purpose of preserving freedom and life.
To those who can see,
I pray it is not taken for granted.
We stop.
My attention is focused on the stillness.
I hear.
A leaf touches me in the breeze.
I feel.
I am grateful.
I have a sense to share the love of life,
especially with you.
— (J. W. Runningwater, 1995)
Copied from Saint Joseph’s Apache Mission in Mescalero, New Mexico, displayed with a list of Mescalero Apache
who served in the armed forces.
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Lincoln County and the Mescalero Apache Tribe Reservation
New Mexico
Forward
T
he enclosed list and records are incomplete and still in the process
of being compiled. Every man listed here is given equal tribute. They
are all patriots who have given their lives for their country. However, records
are not equal: sometimes they are nonexistent, finding them is contingent on
circumstances, they were lost in fire or have not yet been found. There is no
attempt to equalize the list or the records. All names, records, citations, and
decorations are recorded from everything that is available. Some men have a
great amount of recorded decorations, while others do not at this time have
an address other than Lincoln County. One man, Walter Emery Robinson,
died in World War II. A citation was sent to his mother at Tinnie. In truth,
that citation, handwritten by a grief-stricken general, is written for every man
on the list of the Lincoln County and Mescalero Apache Tribe Honor List:
every man who died alone, or in enemy hands, or unseen, or unrecorded.
They are all equally honored here. They are all heroes, brothers, and patriots
that fought together for a country they loved. They gave their lives for
America, liberty, freedom, and peace. They are all honored sons and brothers,
uncles, nephews, husbands, fathers, neighbors, and friends from Lincoln
County and the Mescalero Apache Tribe. We record, remember, honor, and
pay them all tribute here.
— August 1999
On following pages: Handwritten citation honoring
Walter Emery Robinson and all of the men who did not get a citation
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World War I
1914 - 1918
United States involvement
April 6, 1917 - November 11, 1918
The United States lost about 112,000 people,
many to disease.
Died on the Field of Honor
I Have a Rendezvous with Death
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air —
I have a rendezvous with Death
When spring brings back blue days and fair
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath —
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
God knows ‘t were better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear .....
But I’ve a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
— Alan Seeger 1916
Alan Seeger, American poet; Before America entered the War in 1917, Alan Seeger was among the Americans that
entered the War on their own, at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. He joined the French Foreign Legion in 1914
and was killed at Belloy-en-Santerre, July 4, 1916. Alan Seeger’s nephew, American Folk Singer and Instrumentalist,
Pete Seeger
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Not to Keep
They sent him back to her. The letter came
Saying......and she could have him. And before
She could be sure there was no hidden ill
Under the formal writing, he was in her sight —
Living.—They gave him back to her alive —
How else? They are not known to send the dead —
And not disfigured visibly. His face? —
His hands? She had to look — to ask,
“What was it, dear?” And she had given all
And still she had all — they had — They the lucky!
Was n’t she glad now? Everything seemed won,
And all the rest for them permissible ease.
She had to ask, “What was it, dear?”
“Enough”
Yet not enough. A bullet through the through,
High in the breast. Nothing but what good care
And medicine and rest — and you a week,
Can cure me of to go again. “The same
Grim giving to do over for them both.
She dared no more than ask him with her eyes
How was it with him for a second trial.
And with his eyes he asked her not to ask.
They had given him back to her, but not to keep.
— Robert Frost 1918
In 1961 at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Robert Frost became the first poet to read a poem —
“The Gift Outright” — at a presidential inauguration.
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Fleurette
The wounded Canadian Speaks:
My leg? It’s off at the knee.
Do I miss it? Well, some. You see
I’ve had it since I was born;
And lately a devilish corn.
That poilu* across the way,
With the shrapnel wound on his head,
Has a sister: she came to-day
To sit awhile by his bed
All morning I heard him fret:
“Oh, when will she come, Fleurette?
(I rather chuckle with glee
To think how I’ve fooled that corn.)
But I’ll hobble around all right.
It is n’t that, it’s my face.
Oh, I know I’m a hideous sight,
Hardly a thing in place.
Sort of gargoyle, you’d say.
Nurse won’t you give me a glass,
But I see the folks as they pass
Shudder and turn away;
Turn away in distress ...........
Mirror enough, I guess.
I’m gay! You bet I am gay,
But I was n’t a while ago.
If you’d seen me even to-day,
The darnedest picture of woe,
With this Caliban mug of mine,
So ravaged and raw and red,
Turned to the wall — in fine
Wishing that I was dead.........
What has happened since then,
Since I lay with my face to the wall,
The most despairing of men!
Listen! I’ll tell you all.
Then sudden, a joyous cry;
The tripping of little feet;
The softest, tenderest sigh;
A voice so fresh and sweet;
Clear as a silver bell,
Fresh as the morning dews:
“C’ est toi, c’ est toi, Marcel!
Mon frère, comme je suis heureuse!”
So over the blanket rim
I raised my terrible face,
And I saw — how I envied him !
A girl of such delicate grace;
Sixteen, all laughter and love;
As gay as a linnet, and yet
As tenderly sweet as a dove;
Half woman, half child — Fleurette
*Poilu = French “Tommy”
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Then I turned to the wall again.
(I was awfully blue, you see,)
And I thought with a bitter pain:
“Such visions are not for me.”
So there like a log I lay,
All hidden, I thought, from view,
When sudden I heard her say:
“Ah! Who is that malheureux?”
Then briefly I heard him tell
(However he came to know)
How I’d smothered a bomb that fell
Into the trench, and so
None of my men were hit,
Though it busted me up a bit.
So when she had gone I said
In a rather dreary voice
To him of the opposite bed:
“Ah, friend, how you must rejoice!
But me, I’m a thing of dread.
For me nevermore the bliss,
The thrill of a woman’s kiss.”
Then I stopped, for lo! She was there,
And a great light shone in her eyes.
And me! I could only stare,
I was taken so by surprise,
When gently she bent her head:
“May I kiss you sergeant ?” She said
Then she kissed my burning lips,
With her mouth like a scented flower,
And I thrilled to the finger-tips,
And I had n’t even the power
To say: “God bless you, dear!”
And I felt such a precious tear
Fall on my withered cheek,
And darn it! I could n’t speak.
And so she went sadly away,
And I know that my eyes were wet.
Ah. Not to my dying day
Will I forget, forget!
Can you wonder now I am gay?
God bless her, that little Fleurette!
Well, I did n’t quiver an eye,
And he chattered and there she sat:
And I fancied I heard her sigh —
But I would n’t just swear to that.
And maybe she was n’t so bright,
Though she talked in a merry strain,
And I closed my eyes ever so tight,
Yet I saw her ever so plain:
Her dear little tilted nose,
Her delicate, dimpled chin,
Her mouth like a budding rose,
And the glistening pearls within;
Her eyes like the violet:
Such a rare little queen — Fleurette
And at last when she rose to go,
The light was a little dim,
And I ventured to peep, and so
I saw her, graceful and slim,
And she kissed him and kissed him, and oh
How I envied and envied him!
— Robert W. Service
Robert Service, Canadian poet, drove an
ambulance during World War I 1914-1918.
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The Choice
The American Spirit speaks
To the Judge of Right and Wrong
With Whom fulfillment lies
Our purpose and our power belong,
Our faith and sacrifice.
Let Freedom’s land rejoice!
Our ancient bonds are riven;
Ounce more to us the eternal choice
Of good or ill is given.
Not at a little cost,
Hardly by prayer or tears,
Shall we recover the road we lost
In the drugged and doubting years.
But after the fires and the wrath,
But after searching and pain,
His Mercy opens us a path
To live with ourselves again.
In the Gates of Death rejoice!
We see and hold the good—
Bear witness, Earth, we have made our choice
For Freedom’s brotherhood.
Then praise the Lord Most High
Whose Strength hath saved us whole,
Who bade us choose that the Flesh should die
And not the living Soul!
To the God in Man displayed—
Where’er we see that Birth,
Be love and understanding paid
As never yet on earth!
To the Spirit that moves in Man,
On Whom all worlds depend,
Be Glory since our world began
And service to the end!
— Rudyard Kipling 1917
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German Prisoners
When first I saw you in the curious street
Like some platoon of soldier ghosts in grey,
My mad impulse was all to smite and slay,
To spit upon you—tread you ’neath my feet
But when I saw how each sad soul did greet
My gaze with no sign of defiant frown,
How from tired eyes looked spirits broken down,
How each face showed the pale flag of defeat,
And doubt, despair, and disillusionment,
And how were grievous wounds on many a head,
And on your garb red-faced was other red ;
And how you stooped as men whose strength was spent,
I knew that we had suffered each as other,
And could have grasped your hand and cried, “My Brother!”
— Sergeant Joseph Lee 1918
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The Convalescent
… So I walked among the willows very quietly all night;
There was no moon at all, at all; no timid star alight;
There was no light at all, at all; I wint from tree to tree,
And I called him as his mother called, but he nivver answered me.
Oh I called him all the night-time, as I walked the wood alone;
And I listened and I listened, but I nivver heard a moan;
Then I found him at the dawnin’, when the sorry sky was red:
I was lookin’ for the livin’, but I only found the dead.
Sure I know that it was Shamus by the silver cross he wore;
But the bugles they were callin’, and I heard the cannon roar.
Oh I had no time to tarry, so I said a little prayer,
And I clasped his hands together, and I left him lyin’ there.
Now the birds are singin’, singin’ and I’m home in Donegal,
And it’s Springtime, and I’m thinkin’ that I only dreamed it all;
I dreamed about that evil wood, all crowded with its dead,
Where I knelt beside me brother when the battle-dawn was red.
Where I prayed beside me brother ere I wint to fight anew:
Such dreams as these are evil dreams; I can’t believe it’s true.
Where all is love and laughter, sure it’s hard to think of loss …
But mother’s sayin’ nothin’, and she clasps—a silver cross.
— Robert W. Service 1916
From the book Rhymes of a Red Cross Man dedicated; “To the memory of my brother Lieutenant Albert Service,
Canadian Infantry, killed in action, France, August, 1916 World War 1.”
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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919
T
housands of World War I military men, along with millions of civilians throughout the
world, died in the great global Spanish influenza pandemic. This outbreak, attributed by
France to Spain, by Spain to France, and by America to Eastern Europe, seems to have appeared
almost simultaneously amongst the nations of the Western Front and showed the explosive
character that is possible only for a highly invasive infection assisted by conditions of swift
communication such as exist in modern war.
This particular strain of virulent influenza was especially pathogenic to the young adult
population. Young adults in excellent physical condition from rural areas of America and Native
Americans were the most vulnerable to this deadly disease. Young adults from rural areas and
Native Americans were not exposed to the same pathogens as those who lived in urban areas.
The crowded troopships afforded just the incubation places that would permit the maturation of
such an infection. On one Atlantic Ocean crossing, the largest troop ship, the Leviathan—with a
crew of two thousand and troop passengers numbering eleven thousand, including two hundred
nurses—reported in its War Diary that so many men had died onboard ship that it was impossible
to take care of the bodies. When the ship arrived in France, 969 influenza victims were taken to
Brest’s already crammed hospitals. Two hundred of these men died and were buried in a French
cemetery in Lambézellec. Europe, with its crowded concentration areas and billets, offered an
unequaled opportunity for the spread of the disease.
In the United States, the epidemic started at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, around September 15,
1918, and rapidly spread across the country. The common cause of death was pneumonia. There
were at that time no antibiotics to treat pneumonia.
Twenty to forty million people died worldwide. In America, some twenty-five million grew sick
and an estimated six hundred and seventy-five thousand died, all within a few tragic, horrible
months. Forty-three thousand American soldiers died. Of the twenty-three men who were World
War I casualties from Lincoln County, New Mexico, three were killed in action, one died of
wounds, one died as a result of poison gas, one died in an accident in the line of duty, three died
of disease, and fourteen died in the great pandemic of the Spanish influenza.
At military ceremonies for the dead on both sides of the Atlantic, the lists of dead were read
aloud: those killed by the enemy and those that died in the pandemic. After each name came the
crisp military response, “Died on the Field of Honor.”
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World War I
Pedro Analla
Tinnie
Private, Company F, 1st Infantry Replacement and Training Regiment, Army. He died of influenza/pneumonia
at Camp Pike, Arkansas, on October 11, 1918, as reported in the October 26, 1918, Official Bulletin,
page 23. The address of his next of kin, his stepfather, A. P. Montoya, and his mother, Sofia Analla, was
Capitan, New Mexico.
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World War I
Charles Walter Beaver
Corona
Private, Company K, 157th Infantry, 40th Division, Army. He died of disease at Camp Kearney, California, on
December 21, 1917. His father was James W. Beaver of Corona. American Legion Post No. 35 was named in
his honor.
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World War I
Benjamin I. Berry
Carrizozo
First Lieutenant, Company A, 147th Machine Gun Battalion, 41st Division, Army. The 41st Division was
made into a Depot Division and its infantry units used as replacements. While serving with the 5th Machine
Gun Battalion, a unit in the 2nd Division, he was severely wounded and died of his wounds on November 20,
1918. He was buried in the Thiaucort Cemetery in France, location 27-B-21. His brother was R.E. Berry.
The Carrizozo American Legion Post No. 11 was named in his honor.
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A brave among the brave was Benjamin I. Berry.
Born in 1881, he was a farmer until 1901, when he joined the regular army.
During the Spanish-American War he served nearly three years in the Philippines,
and in 1914 went under General Pershing into Old Mexico. In the summer 1917
he joined the 5th Machine Gun Battalion, and in November went to France,
where he served with the 147th Machine Gun Battalion. In the fall of 1918 he was
made a Second Lieutenant, a promotion from his former rank as Quarter Master
Sergeant. He was wounded October 5, but not seriously. The latter part of
October the 5th Machine Gun Battalion was in action near Montblanc, France,
when Lieutenant Berry learned that his Company Commander had been killed
and the second in command wounded, and he himself went to the front line
and took command. Very shortly he was seriously wounded in the head and the
surgeon placed an evacuation tag on his uniform and ordered him taken to the
hospital. As soon as the surgeon had passed on, Lieutenant Berry tore off and
destroyed the tag, and returned to his company. In the front line for twenty-four
hours he commanded the defense, then when relief came, guided his company
back from the trenches, and when his self appointed task was completed — died.
Since his death he has been cited and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross,
and the French Government has sent his brother, R. E. Berry of Carrizozo, N. M.,
a Palm Croix de Guerre Emblem in recognition of his brave deed.
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World War I
Leland Stanford Bond
Corona
Corporal, serial number 1627887, Company K, 157th Infantry, 40th Division, Army. The 40th Division was
made into a Depot Division and its infantry units used as replacements. While serving with a Military Police
Company, he died of bronchial pneumonia on December 31, 1918, in Avignon, France. His body was
returned to the United States. His father was J. T. Bond. Corona American Legion Post No. 35 was named in
his honor.
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World War I
George A. Chavez
Capitan
Private, 2nd Infantry Replacement and Training Regiment, Army. He
died October 4, 1918, of influenza/pneumonia at Camp Pike, Arkansas,
as reported in the November 22, 1918, Official Bulletin, page 27.
The address of his next of kin, his father Antonio Chavez of Encinoso,
New Mexico, was shown as Capitan, New Mexico.
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World War I
John Young Crawford
Corona
Private, Company K, 157th Infantry, 40th Division, Army. He died
January 10, 1918, of disease at Camp Kearny, San Diego, California. His
mother was Mrs. William Augustus Crawford of Corona, New Mexico.
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World War I
Jim Dearman
Carrizozo
Wagoner, serial number 179492, Company B, 26th Engineer’s Regiment (a water supply regiment), Army. He
died of influenza/pneumonia on February 4, 1918, in Bourg, France. His body was returned to United States.
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World War I
Donaciano Gonzales
Oscura
Private, serial number 2239887, Company B, 58th Infantry, 4th Division,
Army. He was trained at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas and transferred
overseas as an infantry replacement. He was killed in action on July 19,
1918. His father was Genaro Gonzales of Belen, Texas.
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World War I
Milas Jefferson Grafton
Parsons
Private, 157th Infantry Regiment, 40th Division, Army. He was discharged from Camp Kearney, California,
because of his physical condition, contracted pneumonia, and died when he reached home on December 20,
1917. He was the first man from Lincoln County New Mexico to die as a result of World War I.
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World War I
William Randal Greer
Oscura
Private, 46th Field Artillery Regiment, 16th Division, Army. He died of influenza/pneumonia on November 16,
1918, at Camp Kearney, California. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Greer of Oscura.
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World War I
Robert James Hagee
Alto (Littlecreek)
Robert James Hagee from Alto, New Mexico, Private, serial number 3967709, Company A, 121st Infantry
Regiment, 31st Division, Army. He died of influenza/pneumonia on October 16, 1918, in France serving
in the 31st Division. His body was returned to United States. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. T.A. Hagee.
The Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico American Legion Post No. 79 was named in his honor.
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World War I
Roy Hamilton
Lincoln
Army Private, serial number 1635181, Company G, 59th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division killed in Action,
August 11, 1918. He enlisted in the National Guard while a resident of Woodland, California, but his next of
kin lived in Lincoln. His body was returned to the United States.
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World War I
Harvey Hughes
Carrizozo
Private, Company H, 2nd Infantry Replacement and Training Regiment, Army. He died at Camp Pike, Arkansas,
on October 6, 1918, of influenza/pneumonia, as reported in the October 26, 1918, Official Bulletin, page 23.
His next of kin was his wife, Mrs. Harvey Hughes, Box 92, Carrizozo, New Mexico.
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World War I
Charles Klenck
Oscura
Private, serial number 1627870, Company A, 109th Infantry Regiment,
28th Division, Army. He was killed in action on November 8, 1918, and
buried in France, at Romagne Cemetery, location 23-D-36. His next of
kin was his brother, William Klenck % (?) Globe, Toronto, Canada.
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World War I
William E. Knowles
Ancho
Company A, 329th Infantry, 83rd Division, Army. He was discharged from a base in El Paso, Texas, on
February 13, 1918. He died as a result of exposure to poison gas on July 21, 1919, at home. His mother was
Mrs. Varona L. Knowles.
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World War I
Henry A. Lindly, Lincoln
from the Adjutant Generals files,
New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe.
Copy of a letter to the Board of Historical Service
Lincoln N. Mex.
Jan. 30 1919
Board of Historical Service
Santa Fe. N.M.
Dear Sirs:
I am in receipt of your letter of January 25. My brother is not
dead it is a mistake he is still in France but will be home soon
My letter was written Jan. the 10 so you see it is a mistake he
says in his letter that he is enjoying good health Oh I am so
proud to know that he will get back to the U.S.A.
So I guess you will just leave him out of your record.
Most Sincerely
Mrs. Lloyd Hulbert
Henry A. Lindly
Lincoln
Portable Verification Unit, Army. He died of influenza/pneumonia.
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World War I
Fred M. Lindsey*
Carrizozo
Private, Army. He died of influenza/pneumonia at Camp Kearney, California, during the week ending
November 22, 1918, as reported in the November 30, 1918, Official Bulletin, page 26. The address of his next
of kin was shown as Carrizozo, New Mexico.
*In 1999, it was revealed by a family member that Fred M. Lindsey was an alias. He was wanted by the law, and
a friend hid him under some hay on a wagon and took him out of the county where he enlisted under the name
Fred M. Lindsey. He is honored here under that name.
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World War I
Michael J. McNamara Jr.
Carrizozo
Private, Ambulance Company 3, 1st Division, Army. He died in France of cerebrospinal meningitis on
December 31, 1917, as reported in the January 7, 1918, Official Bulletin. His next of kin was his father,
Michael J. McNamara, Sr., of 1102 North Florence Street, El Paso, Texas.
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World War I
Cándido Montoya
San Patricio
Private, Company 3, Infantry Development Battalion, Army. He died November 5, 1918, of influenza/pneumonia at Camp Cody, New Mexico. He was buried at San Patricio. His father was Estonislao Montoya, and his
mother was Socorra Ulivarri de Montoya.
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World War I
Richard Cecil Morgan
Carrizozo
Recruit, Company 18, Army. While stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, he died on October 18, 1918, of
influenza/pneumonia. He was in the service only 14 days. His death was reported in the November 9, 1918,
Official Bulletin, page 26. The address of his next of kin was shown as Box 354, Carrizozo, New Mexico. His
wife was Mrs. Zella Grumbles Morgan of White Oaks, New Mexico.
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World War I
Louis Moya
Arabela
Private, serial number 3967721, Battery F, 125th Field Artillery, 32nd Division, Army. He died of influenza/
pneumonia on October 12, 1918, in France. He was buried in La Fère, France, at Oise-Aisne American
Cemetery and Memorial, location 29-C-07. His father was Rumaldo Moya of Arabela, New Mexico.
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World War I
Susano Sanchez
San Patricio
Private, Company M, 1st Infantry Replacement and Training Regiment, Camp Pike, Arkansas, Army. He died
on October 11, 1918, of influenza/pneumonia as reported in the October 26, 1918, Official Bulletin, page 23.
The address of his next of kin was shown as Carrizozo, New Mexico. His wife was Josefita Sais Sanchez, and his
daughter was Jose Santitos Sanchez.
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World War I
Kenneth Robert Watson
Carrizozo
Machinist’s Mate, Navy. While returning from Brazil and Cuba, he was gravely injured by an boiler explosion
onboard while in the line of duty at Newport News, Virginia. He died Sunday morning, March 2, 1919, at
St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City and was buried in Roswell, New Mexico. His next of kin was his mother,
Mrs. M.L. Watson of Roswell.
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World War I
Gladney Taylor White
Carrizozo
Private, Army. He volunteered for the draft and entered the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) at State
College in New Mexico on October 2, 1918. He died on October 17, 1918, of influenza/pneumonia at the base
hospital in Fort Bliss, Texas, as reported in the November 23, 1918, Official Bulletin, page 37. The address of
his next of kin was shown as “Mother, Mildred A. White, Carrizozo, New Mexico.” (The SATC college-based
unit existed from July to December, 1918, training leaders and specialists for the larger Army that were to be
used in 1919.)
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American Gold Star Mothers
During World War I, American Women who had family members serving their country wore
a blue star around their left arm. As this conflict progressed and the number of dead escalated,
mothers wanted to express their loss, as well as the pride and honor they felt for their country.
A suggestion of sewing a gold star over the blue star was made by The Women’s Committee of
the Council of National Defense. This group presented the idea to President Woodrow Wilson
and the practice was adopted in 1918.
On June 4, 1928, twenty-five mothers in Washington D. C. banded together to form a
non-profit organization designated as the American Gold Star Mothers. This group espoused
all religious faiths and political beliefs and by January 5, 1929, they incorporated. Eventually
each state would organize their own chapters and affiliate with the members from Washington.
The organization purchased a building on May 7, 1954, near the Lincoln and Vietnam
Memorials. This structure houses the National Headquarters for the American Gold Star
Mothers, Inc. This facility contains the records and information for the club, and its records
of deceased soldiers from World War I, World War II, the Korean conflict, Vietnam War and
now the Iraq War.
Compiled by Cecilia Gutierrez Venable.
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1939 - 1945
United States involvement: December 8, 1941–September 2, 1945
Germany surrenders: May 8, 1945
Japan surrenders: September 2, 1945
United States battle deaths: 292,131
United States deaths from other causes: 115,187
407,318 deaths in total
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Front row, left to right: Henry Latham survived the Bataan Death March, returned home, died in tragic farm
accident; Leet Forbus killed in action; George Torrez died as a prisoner of war
Back row, left to right: Ollie Roper survived Bataan Death March, died Prisoner of War; Raymond Hunt
returned home; Earnest Prehm returned home; Santiago Analla died on a Japanese prison ship
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From the book Brave Men:
Dedicated
In solemn salute to those thousands of our comrades—great, brave men that they were—for whom there will
be no homecoming, ever.
Invasion Prelude [page 7]:
Our ship had been in African waters many months but the Sicilian invasion was the first violent action for
most of its crew. Only three or four men, who’d been torpedoed in the Pacific, had ever before had any close
association with the probability of sudden death. So I know the sailors went into that action just as soldiers go
into the first battle—outwardly calm but inside frightened and sick with worry. It’s the lull in the last couple of
days before starting that hits so hard. In the preparation period fate seems far away, and once in action a man is
too busy to be afraid. It’s just those last couple of days when there is time to think too much.
One of the nights before we sailed I sat in the darkness of the forward deck helping half a dozen sailors eat a
can of stolen pineapple. Some of the men of the group were hardened and mature. Others were almost children.
They all talked seriously and their gravity was touching. The older ones tried to rationalize how the law of averages made it unlikely that our ship out of all the hundreds involved would be hit. They spoke of the inferiority
of the Italian fleet and argued pro and con over whether Germany had some hidden Luftwaffe up her sleeve that
she might whisk out to destroy us. Younger ones spoke but little. They talked to me of their plans and hopes for
going to college or getting married after the war, always winding up with the phrase “If I get through this fracas
alive.”
As we sat there on the hard deck—squatting like Indians in a circle around our pineapple can—it all struck
me as somehow pathetic. Even the dizziest of us knew that before long many of us stood an excellent chance of
being in this world no more. I don’t believe one of us was afraid of the physical part of dying. That isn’t the way
it is. The emotion is rather one of almost desperate reluctance to give up the future. I suppose that’s splitting
hairs and that it really comes under the heading of fear. Yet somehow there is a difference.
These gravely-yearned-for futures of men going into battle include so many things—things such as seeing
the “old lady” again, of going to college, of staying in the Navy for a career, of holding on your knee just once
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your own kid whom you’ve never seen, of again becoming champion salesman of your territory, of driving a
coal truck around the streets of Kansas City once more and ,yes, even of just sitting in the sun once more on the
south side of a house in New Mexico. When we huddled around together on the dark decks, it was these little
hopes and ambitions that made up the sum total of our worry at leaving, rather than any visualization of physical agony to come.
Our deck and the shelf-like deck above us were dotted with small knots of men talking. I deliberately lis-
tened around for a while. Each group were talking in some way about their chances of survival. A dozen times I
overheard this same remark: “Well, I don’t worry about it because I look at it this way. If your number’s up then
it’s up, and if it isn’t you’ll come through no matter what.”
Every single person who expressed himself that way was a liar and knew it, but, hell, a guy has to say some-
thing. I heard oldsters offering to make bets at even money that we wouldn’t get hit seriously. Those were the
offers but I don’t think any bets actually were made. Somehow it seemed sacrilegious to bet on our own lives.
Once I heard somebody in the darkness start cussing and give this answer to some sailor critic who was
proclaiming how he’d run things: “Well, I figure that captain up there in the cabin has got a little more in his
noggin than you have or he wouldn’t be captain, so I’ll put my money on him.”
And another sailor voice chimed in with “Hell, yes, that captain has slept through more watches than you
and I have spent time in the Navy.”
And so it went on one of the last nights of safety. I never heard anybody say anything patriotic, the way the
storybooks have people talking. There was philosophizing but it was simple and undramatic. I’m sure no man
would have stayed ashore if he’d been given the chance. There was something bigger in him than the awful
dread that would have made him want to stay safe on land. With me that something probably was an irresistible
egoism in seeing myself part of an historic naval movement. With others I think it was just the application of
plain, unspoken, even unrecognized, patriotism.
(Ernie Pyle, WWII correspondent from Albuquerque, NM, writing from Sicily in 1943)
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Pete R. Adler
Carrizozo (Officially listed Otero County)
Private, serial number 38442740, 142nd Infantry, 36th Division, Army. He was killed in action at the Battle of
the Bulge in Germany on November 17, 1944. He was buried in Épinal, France, location, A-25-57. He was
awarded a Purple Heart.
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Santiago S. Analla
Tinnie
Private, serial number 38012325, Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 200th Cavalry Regiment, Army. He was
born March 2, 1917. He died on October 24, 1944, in the Hell Ship Arisan Maru (1,800 American prisoners
died) in the Pacific Theater. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
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Moises Arellano
Lincoln County
First Class Moises Arellano from Lincoln County, New Mexico, Private, serial number 37355323, 68th Infantry
Battalion, 14th Armored Division, Army. He was killed in action in Normandy, France, on February 24, 1945.
He was buried in Lorraine, France, location C-27-57. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
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Jose D. Beltran
Carrizozo
Private, serial number 38441751, 363rd Infantry, 91st Division, Army. He was killed in action on July 8, 1944.
He was buried in Florence, Italy, location E-12-26. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
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Robert Elmer Bigger
Capitan
Private First Class, serial
number 38214793, Army.
He drowned at Barksdale
Field in Shreveport,
Louisiana, in 1948.
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Hoyt L. Bivens
Carrizozo / Oscura
Private First Class, serial number 38582813, 383rd Infantry, 96th Division, Army. He was killed in action on
June 17, 1945, in Okinawa, Japan. He was buried in Honolulu, Hawaii, location F-263. He was awarded a
Purple Heart (posthumously) and a Bronze Star Medal.
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Robert S. Bowlin
Carrizozo
Private First Class, serial number 6,281,257, Army.
“New Mexico Soldier
Killed in Auto Accident”
Deming, N. M., Feb. 4
Pvt. Robert Bowlin of Carrizozo
N.M., was killed and two other
soldiers were seriously injured
Tuesday night when their automobile overturned eight miles south
of here on the road to Columbus.
Injured were Lieut. George Cambell
and Sgt. Rupert Andrews.
The trio was from the Eighth Cavalry
and stationed at Columbus.
(Albuquerque Journal, February 5, 1942,
page 1)
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Fredrick E. Bridges
Lincoln County
Staff Sergeant, serial number 18015186, Army.
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Weslie H. Brown
Lincoln County
Staff Sergeant, serial number 18067751, 822nd Bomber Squadron, 38th Bomber Group /M/, Army. He died
January 19, 1946, in the Pacific Theater. He was awarded an Air Medal and a Purple Heart.
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Prisoners of War Bataan Death March, a 70-mile forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by
Japanese forces during World War II.
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Chase Brothers, Ruidoso
Albert Bacon Fall Chase
Ruidoso
First Lieutenant, serial number 0397761, 73rd Infantry, 71st Division /PA/, Army. He was killed in action on
September 7, 1944, in the Pacific Theater. He died aboard a crowded Japanese prison ship made to look like a
destroyer. The United States Navy, not knowing American prisoners were aboard, sank the ship. Those prisoners
that tried to swim to shore were shot by the Japanese. (There was one survivor.) He was awarded a Bronze Star
Medal, an Oak Leaf Cluster, and a Purple Heart.
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Transcribed from two hand written letters sent to Mrs. Chase
Bushnell Gen. Hosp.
Brigham City
Utah
Aug. 17 -1945
Dear Mrs. Chase:
Please accept my most heartfelt sympathy upon the loss of your very dear son and my very close
friend Albert. The news of his loss on that Jap Prison Ship is a great shock to me. It seems that all the
Officers of our 73rd Regiment were on that ship. Would that such news were false. But if the War
Department has sent out word — they must have received some definite list from the Japs.
Albert became one of my closest friends in the Army. I happen to be a Jesuit Priest. I was in Mindanao
when the War broke. There was only one other American besides myself in the town. On Jan. 3rd or
4th of 1942 Filipino Troops Officered by Americans began to arrive in Ilegan, ( Iligan, Lanao, Mindanao). The 73rd Reg. of the 81st Div. arrived on one of those days.
Col. Robert Vesey of Hope Arkansas, (originally from Texas) was the Commanding Officer of the
73rd.
The other Officers were Capt. S. Byors, of Regimental Hqts.
Lt. Al Chase - 1st Battalion Lt. Laro 2nd Battalion
Lt. Stephens 3rd Battalion
Your Son
The 73rd - took over the Illigan Sector of Lauao Province, Mindanao. As it turned out your son’s Battalion bivouacked in the large coconut grove that adjoined the Cemetery connected with my church.
Al was one of the first American Officers I got acquainted with. And he gave me his permission immediately to do all the work that a priest should do among his troops.
As the Officers had to go to a local hotel for their meals and pay for them — and since none of them
had to much money—I used to invite Al to my home for dinner on many occasions.
Not much after his arrival in Iligan, Al — and a Capt Lave and a Sergeant asked if I could put them
up regularly for all meals. This was just what I wanted—Well we started and the very next day
all the Officers moved in on me. It was really grand to have such excellent men for company at
meals daily. We carried on that way right up until a week before the surrender. The Padres house
became the refuge for all American Officers and Enlisted Men passing through that town.
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It was not until March of that year that I was able to get permission from my Superiors to apply
for a Commission as a chaplain in the Army. The Officers made an occasion of it—the evening
I signed my application. Al and the other Officers stayed at my house until 10 P.M. each night
spending their time playing cards or reading. Naturally I had a library with all the best books. Al,
did not play cards, but was a very avid reader.
When War broke I turned my school into a hospital. When any of Al’s men got sick he brought
them to me.
When ever the Col. had any difficult mission to perform he some how always chose Al and his
battalion to do it. For instance a trail had to be blazed between our sector and that of Mag. Gen.
Sharp’s so that we could move back to them or they to us depending on whom the Japs hit first.
Al and his battalion were chosen to make this march. It was about 75 miles over mountains and
through forests. They did.
Many a night I used to spend with Al—down on the pier watching for any approaching ships. It
was an all night job for the Officers on duty. I would leave him about mid-night—Go back and
bring him a thermos bottle of coffee.
The Japs on April 29 - hit and made a landing on our flank - guarded by 61st Reg. This Reg. held
for a day — On the night of May 1st the 73rd was called upon to go in and reinforce the 61st —
Al’s battalion was chosen first—I went with them in Al’s car. Honest I love your son. He was good
to me. — In that battle Al did wonderful work. Really he was loved by all his men and Officers.
Usually Filipinos have not the greatest foresight — But that night when Al called aside his
adjutant to tell him they were ordered to move in—The adjutant said Sir:— the men all have
their food rations for the next day. That meant that each man had his canteen filled with rice. I
could see that Al could have hugged that Adjutant. Really Al had the welfare of his men at heart
at all times. And I know that they really and truly loved and respected him. They did not let him
down in battle but stayed right with him all the time.
The next time I met Al was May 6th. We were not fighting then — We had nothing to fight with.
Japs had mortar and artillery — we had one machine gun to a company — I was with the 3rd
Battalion at this time — The Col. sent Al over to us to give us all necessary information — I left
him on the 7th It was our last hand shake.
On the 9th of May Capt. Byors told me not to surrender. I got away and returned to the
mountains behind my Parish in Iligan. But a month later I was betrayed - and caught. The Japs
never questioned me about my helping the Army or being with the Army. And I did not volunteer
any information. So I was put in the Civilian Concentration Camp. On July 9th the soldiers and
civilians were put on a small boat and brought from Iligan to Cagayan. The soldiers were down in
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the hole — we civilians on deck. I had quite a supply of cigarettes - and some home made
cookies given to me secretly that morning by some Filipino friends., God bless them. Braving a
slap in the face from the Jap sentry I asked him in sign language if I could give to soldiers. He
allowed me — fortunately Al was the nearest to me — and I gave them to him.
My next and last time I met Al was on July 11 — we were quartered in Public School of Cagayan
that day. Soldiers on one side, civilians on other. I was cooking for the civilians Al for the soldiers.
Our fires were about 10 feet apart. In subdued voices we carried on conversations — when Japs
were not looking. During this time he told me how the Japs executed good Col. Vesey. The Japs
are barbaric. May the Lord forgive them. In Darao the civilian camp was 40 miles from the
soldiers camp — and we never had a chance to meet.
May the Lord forgive the Japs for deliberately transferring prisoners during an air attack. How if
grieves me to learn that your dear son was on one of those ill fated ships. My heart goes out to
you. Al will always be among the first in my prayers. He was like a young brother to me — May
God bless him and have mercy upon him.
You the parent of such a wonderful boy I know will bear like the true soldier that your son was
this heavy cross the Lord has placed upon your shoulders.
God bless you also
With deepest sympathy
Andrew Fm Cerrcici Sr
Please excuse this rough writing. I’m still in bed. Thank God it was not until after we were liberated
that I was wounded. I was hit by a Jap sniper while preparing to say Mass for our American G I s.
Result — lost my right foot and two toes off the left — But I hope in a few months to be up on
artificial limbs. I am doing very well now.
Fm Cerrcici S
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Brigham City, Utah.
Sept. 15 - 1945
Dear Mrs. Chase
I don’t know how to thank you for your long letter and it’s generous contents. There was no need
of sending those contents as Al incurred no debts with me - My house was not a boarding house.
I had to do my bit some way - and it was done by feeding the hungry and caring for the sick and
wounded.
I had turned my school into a hospital a week before war broke - Al gave us the greatest of
prestige when he began to send his men over to us for treatment - There was the night that his
men were brought in wounded by a deserter whom they went out to catch in the hills. They were
in a pretty serious condition. I know I had to chase Al to bed at midnight - with the assurance
I would keep watch - At Al’s own request - I put my two civilian doctors to care for those men
for as Al told me his own battalion surgeon was a boy just out of medical school with little or no
experience. Al said to use his own words he did not care to make his men guinea pigs for such a
surgeon. Before the fall of Mindanao — Al’s surgeon did pick up a good deal of experience.
Newspaper reports today speak of Bataan and Corregidor - never a word about Mindanao - we
had our battle too — One against starvation — our forces then did not have the stores of canned
meat and vegetables that were on the Rock - and were being saved for a rainy day - but fell into
the hands of the Japs. It is true Corregedor could not get the supplies down to us - and it is also
true we only had a nine day battle against the Japs when they did hit us - but we in Mindanao
were ready to hold out for another six months after Bataan and Corregidor — only orders came
from the Rock to surrender.
I don’t say the above out of jealousy but rather in a sort of resentment. Our boys — and I mean
our Officers and the handful of American enlisted men we had on Mindanao were leading
Filipino soldiers Bataan and Corregidor had full regiment of American soldiers. So our job was a
more difficult one — I told you in my last letter how we did not have a single artillery piece —
But in front of the Public School in my town were the barrels of artillery pieces of Spanish American
days. At table one day Al begged Col. Vesey to allow him to take those pieces and put them to
use. But the Colonel was afraid Al might blow himself up in the experiment.
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We had no hand grenades — but Al conceived the idea of taking a piece of bamboo about a foot
long — packing it with shrapnel and powder —- to use it — one would light the fuse with a
match and throw it immediately. These were assembled and used to effect.
There is one other story that I recall about Al — when you mentioned about news from Al it
came to my mind. It was a Tuesday in April 1942 — about the second Tuesday of the month. I
had not been able to get to Al’s battalion the previous Sunday for Mass so I arranged with him to
say Mass in his area on Tuesday. This was the time I had to cross in a jitney the famous bridge Al
engineered in building - It was over the Agus River in Lanao - and placed about a mile above the
Maria Christina Waterfalls. After Niagra one of the largest and prettiest in my estimation. But of
course I am prejudiced At the point where Al built the bridge the rapids are at their swiftest and
roughest. It was an engineer’s bridge. And could carry the weight of a good Army truck loaded.
Well this particular morning after Mass - I took breakfast with Al. — To our surprise Col. Vesey
and Capt. Byons dropped in on us and they had mail. For Al. — I know there was a letter —
I am not sure if it was from his mother or aunt — but they did enclose some money for Al to buy
cigarettes because they knew we could get cigarettes so much cheaper in the Philippines. I know
of this because Al read that part to us — and we all had to laugh because at that time we could
not get any kind of cigarettes for the love of money. I know you’ll want to hear that because it will
give you an idea when Al last heard from home.
I’ve been in the hospital since June 4 — and practically every minute of spare time — has been
taken up with correspondence — for this reason I’ve been prevented from writing the story of
Lauao in the days of ‘42 — Al will have a large place in this story if I ever do get around to
writing it.
This incident is most interesting — Al did not tell me — he wouldn’t naturally — but Capt. Lane
— (killed later by mortar?? on the day of the surrender) and who perhaps was Al’s best friend in
those days.
Because my name happens to be Italian the Anticlericals of the Philippine Constabulary were
making up stores about me — even though I had opened a hospital — and took it upon myself
to hand out buns and cigarettes to all the Filipino soldiers passing through our area in the first
month of the war. This of course was before the advent of Col. Vesey and his regiment — which I
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later joined as chaplain. It was our first week of having Officers Mess in my house when the other
American citizen in Iligan a Mr. Hagaus had a birthday party. The Col. and Al and General Jost
and ex Gov. Hefflington and Capt. Lane were the only ones invited. Gov. Hefflington (last
American Gov. of Lauao before the Philippines became a Common Wealth in 1935) was a very
close friend of mine. He had come to see me about an hour before the dinner. He knew of the
work I was doing - and I begged him to investigate the stories of my “friends” — in the Constabulary.
Well at the birthday dinner - he brought the subject up of those false stories. Gen. Jost who had
not got to know me yet - said: — “ well when we are given tips — we have to investigate —
it’s war time.” — Al, I’m told immediately stood up - and said “General — if anyone lays a finger
on that little Padre — he”ll have to answer to me.” And Capt. Lane said Al had his hand on his gun when he said it. That was very early January —
I had not known Al much. It was only our third day having meals together. But from then on I
was ready to do anything for Al. — Is it any wonder that he was endeared to me — And that I say
I will never forget him — In calling your two boys God has placed a very heavy cross on your
shoulders But knowing Al and the soldier that he was — I know also that you his dear ones will
also be true soldiers and bear the cross with Christian fortitude and resignation — God bless you
all — You really have cause to be proud of your sons.
Most sincerely and gratefully
Andrew J: Cerrcici Sr
Chaplain 73 rd Reg. USA FPA
Please pardon my terrible hand writing.
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Chase Brothers, Ruidoso
William Greene Chase
Ruidoso
Second Lieutenant, serial number 01297160, Army. He died at Camp Bullis, Texas, on January 10, 1943, when
a faulty missile exploded. As a result of the accident, sabotage was uncovered at the plant where the missile
came from.
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Chavez Brothers, San Patrici
Abeslin C. Chavez
San Patricio
Private First Class, serial number 38010626, 158th Infantry Regiment, Army. He was killed in action on
March 20, 1945, in the Philippines. He was buried in Manila, Philippines, location D-1-164. He was awarded a
Bronze Star Medal and a Purple Heart.
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Chavez Brothers, San Patrici
Oziel Chavez
San Patricio
Private, serial number 38011889, 200th Cavalry Regiment, Army. He died on August 19, 1942, in the Bataan
Death March.
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Saturnino “Sat” Chavez Jr.
San Patricio
Technical Sergeant, serial number 18035297, 347th Bomber Squadron, 99th Bomber Group /H/, Air Corp,
Army. He was killed October 1, 1943, when the airplane in which he was a crew member was forced down
in neutral Switzerland by enemy action. He was buried there with full military honors. (Interned American
aviators acted as pallbearers in tribute and honor to their comrades.) He is presently buried in Épinal, France,
location B-45-10. He received an Air Medal, three Oak Leaf Clusters, and a Purple Heart.
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Bernard Dolan
Mescalero (officially listed Otero County)
Technician Five, 2nd Division, serial number 38013233, Army. He was killed in action December 24, 1944, in
Germany. He was awarded a Purple Heart for Military Merit and wounds received resulting in his death.
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“Mescalero Officer Dies
In Pacific Air Crash”
Mescalero, April 4 (AP)
Captain Aharles Shelton Enochs, 28
was killed March 15 in an airplane
crash in the Phillippines, his parents, Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Enochs of
Mescalero have been notified. Captain Enochs, who was a lawyer at
Edinberg, Tex., before entering the
service in 1942, was an intelligence
officer in the Army air Corps troop
charier command. He had been
overseas since September, 1943.
(Albuquerque Journal, April 5, 1945,
page 4)
Charles Shelton Enochs
Mescalero (officially listed as from Hidalgo County, Texas),
Captain, serial number 0571580, Army. Died non-Battle on March 15, 1945.
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Leet C. Forbus
Hondo
Technician Four, serial number 3801985, 700th Ordinance Maintenance Company, 45th Division, Army. He
was killed in action on October 15, 1943. He was buried in Sicily-Rome, location J-12-3. He was awarded a
Purple Heart.
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Rafael Gonzales
San Patricio
Private, serial number 38103754, Army. He was killed in the first wave of the Allied invasion in Normandy,
France, on June 6, 1944. He was awarded a Purple Heart (posthumously).
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Junior Ray Halladay
Ruidoso
Machinist’s Mate Third Class, serial number 08419173, United States Naval Reserve. He was listed as missing at
sea while serving on the destroyer USS Hull. The USS Hull capsized and sank in high seas of a typhoon during a
war mission while operating with the Third Fleet on December 18, 1944, in the Pacific Theater.
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pER 8249 JLP
NAVY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL
WASHINGTON 25, D.C.
6 February 1945
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Halladay,
It is with deepest sorrow that I, as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Hull, write to you
concerning the loss of your son, Junior Ray Halladay, who, following the capsizing and sinking of
that vessel on 18 December 1944, was listed as missing at sea. I deeply regret to inform you that
a careful review of the circumstances has led to the conclusion that there can be no hope that he
survived.
The Circumstances surrounding the disaster in which his life was lost are as follows. The
HULL was carrying out a war mission in company with a large group of naval vessels, which
included the illfated SPENCE and MONAGHAN. There was little warning of vicious typhoon
which struck us with great violence. All precautions had been taken to secure the ship for heavy
weather and she took a terrific beating from the typhoon before going down. The seas were
mountainous and the wind which finally caused our capsizing was estimated to be about
110 knots, an unbelievably high velocity. Every maneuver was tried to improve our situation, but
it was of no use; the storm had the ship in its grip. The order to put on life jackets was given in
plenty of time to allow the crew to be ready for the disaster which occurred shortly after when the
wind laid the ship slowly over on her side and the seas came flowing into the pilot house itself.
There was ample time for the men to abandon ship, as she went down slowly. The
mountainous seas pounded us with terrific violence. That any of us managed to come through it
alive was a miracle, for I fully expected to be drowned within minuets after I entered the water
myself. It was quite impossible to see more than a few feet while in the water as the air was full of
foam and spray, and we were spun over and over by the heavy waves.
Extensive and careful searches were made the following days by both surface vessels and
aircraft for survivors of the disaster. Since there was no land within several hundred miles, it is
quite impossible that anyone could have survived unless he was picked up.
Your son was courageous and reliable from the first day aboard to the end. I was always
impressed with his ability to do a good job and put the good of the ship and crew first--in a word,
to be the finest kind of a shipmate. Whenever the word was passed to handle ammunition or
supplies he was among the first to respond and stayed with the job until it was finished.
So, while the occasion of this letter is a sad one, nevertheless, let it also be a source of
deep satisfaction and strength for you in the years to come to know that he was doing his part
manfully to the end.
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The knowledge that your son lost his life in the service of his country fighting a war
against brutal and unprincipled enemies must be of some consolation to you in your great loss.
Those of us who were fortunate enough to survive will continue to the best of our ability to attain
victory. Please accept my sincerest sympathy in your sorrow and know that I shall be glad to be
of any possible assistance. Further inquiries will reach me if addressed to me in care of Bureau of
Naval Personnel, Room 4030, Navy Department, Washington (25), D. C.
Very Sincerely,
J. A. MARKS
Lt. Comdr., USN
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Charles H. Hargett
Fort Stanton
Sergeant, serial number 38010620, 180th Infantry, 45th Division, Army. He participated in invasions and
actions in Africa and Italy. He was killed in action on December 30, 1943, in Italy. He was buried in SicilyRome, location H-3-36. He was awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster and a Purple Heart.
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Carrizozo first Year Book 1933 Sophomore Class
Aubrey Hines, first row, sitting, far right
Aubrey A. Hines
Carrizozo
First Lieutenant, serial number 0398885, 13th Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Medical Corps, Army, Africa.
He was killed in action on December 2, 1943, in Bari, Italy.
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Elliot E. Jones
Corona and Capitan
Captain, serial number 0663742, 13th Air Force, 38th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, Army. He was
born March 10, 1920, and he died in the line of duty, flying a P-38 solo on his last reconnaissance mission
before returning home. He crashed on Morotai Island in the Netherlands East Indies due to engine failure. He
was killed at 8:00 a.m. on October 5, 1945. He was buried on Morotai Island that same day. His body was
later returned to the Corona Cemetery. It is said that Elliot and his brother Frank passed the Army eye exam by
memorizing it.
104
World War II
Newton Franklin Kemp
Capitan
His military engagements include: battles at Clark Field in Manila, Philippines; the Battle of Bataan; and the first
Philippine campaign. He was a prisoner of war in Bataan. He was awarded a Philippine Defense Ribbon with
one Star, an American Defense Ribbon with one Star, an Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon with two Stars, a World
War II Victory Medal, a World War II Liberty Medal, a Presidential Citation with two Palm Leaf Clusters, and
a Bataan Medal from the State of New Mexico. He was discharged on June 1946, from Fort Bliss, Texas. He is
recorded as the Veterans of Foreign War Capitan Gold Star Boy. He is deceased.
105
World War II
John Wesley Lee Jr.
Corona
Private First Class, serial number 38579625, Army. He was killed in action in the Battle of the Bulge in
Germany on March 13, 1945, as recorded in the War Department Report. His body was returned to South Park
Cemetery in Roswell, New Mexico. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
106
World War II
Ben F. Leslie
Capitan
Private, serial number 38011878, Army. He was a prisoner of the Japanese from April 9, 1942 to January 9,
1945. He was killed on January 9, 1945, onboard a Japanese vessel. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
107
World War II
Robert “Robbie” Luck
Capitan
Chief Yeoman, Navy. He entered the navy in 1937 and died in the Philippines
on February 25, 1945 at twenty-six years old.
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Eloy A. Montes
Hondo
Private First Class, serial number 35581014, Army. Born November 23, 1925, he was killed in action by
shrapnel on January 5, 1945, in Alsace-Lorraine, France. He was buried at the National Cemetery in Santa Fe.
He was awarded a Purple Heart.
110
World War II
Filbert Martinez
Lincoln County
Private, serial number 38168693, Army. He was killed in action.
111
World War II
Jose S. Montes
Lincoln County
Private, serial number 38213955, 349th Infantry, 88th Division,
Army. He was killed in action on October 7, 1944 and buried in
Florence Italy, location E-7010. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
112
World War II
Jake T. (Jacobo) Montoya
Arabela
Staff Sergeant, serial number 38213956, 5th Army, Italy, 350th Infantry Regiment of the 88th “Blue Devil”
Division, Army. He was wounded in action during the North African campaign and killed in action in Italy on
September 24,1944. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for heroic achievement in action (posthumously).
113
World War II
Santiago Montoya
San Patricio
He was stationed on Attu in the Western Aleutian Islands in the Alaskan Territory. He was wounded after being
shot down from a parachute in 1942. He died as a result of his wounds on February 5, 1945.
114
World War II
John W. “Jack” Norton
Capitan
Staff Sergeant, Battery B, 200th Cavalry, Army. He was born August 28, 1915. He died on June 11, 1942, while
a prisoner of war after the Bataan Death March at Camp O’Donnel, Philippines.
115
World War II
Ramon M. Peña
Lincoln County
Private, serial number 38104817, Army.
116
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Kemp C. Pepper
Capitan
Private First Class, serial number 38011869, Army. He died while a
prisoner of war after the Bataan Death March.
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Above list includes:
Robert “Robbie” Luck and Kemp Pepper
both from Capitan.
118
World War II
Howard L. Porter
Corona
Private, Sharp Shooter, serial number 38382112, Army. He was killed in action in Okinawa, Japan, in 1945.
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125
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Tony Regalado
Arabela
Private First Class, serial number 38012565, Battery D, 200th Calvary, Army. He was born July 15, 1918. He
died July 27, 1942, at Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp, Philippines.
126
World War II
Edward M. Richardson
Hondo
Technical Sergeant, serial number 06296837, Troop B, 8th Cavalry, Army. He enlisted at Fort Bliss, Texas, on
November 15, 1939. He was killed in action on April 19, 1945, in northern Luzon, Philippines. He was buried
in Manila, Phillipines, location A-16-6. He was awarded a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star Medal, a
Good Conduct Medal, an Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, a World War II Victory Medal, a Combat Infantryman
Badge, a Philippine Liberation Ribbon, a Philippine Defense Medal, an Honorable Service Lapel Button WWII,
and a Bronze Asiatic-Pacific Defense Campaign Distinguished Service Star.
127
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128
World War II
Walter Emery Robinson
Capitan
Technical Sergeant, serial number 38010624, Army. His military engagements include: the Sicilian campaign,
battles at Anzio Beachhead, battles in the mountains of southern Italy. He was killed in action in Italy on
May 27, 1944. He was awarded a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star Medal, a Distinguished Service Cross, and a
Combat Infantryman Badge.
129
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130
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May,1999:The Robinson family from Texas, came to the Court House in Carrizozo, seeking
information on their ancestors, in County Clerk, Martha McKnight Proctor made this copy:
Citation sent to, Martha E. Robinson, Mother, Tinnie, New Mexico.
Copied from two pages completely hand written by General Mark W. Clark Lieutenant General
U.S. Army, Commanding.
Headquarters Fifth Army
A.P.O. #464, U.S. Army
July 9, 1944
Under the provision of Army Regulation 600-45 as amended, a Distinguished-Service Cross is
awarded, Posthumously to Technical Sergeant Walter E. Robinson. 38010-4, Infantry, United
States Army, For Extra ordinary heroism in Action.
Citation:
Walter E. Robinson. (38010624), Technical Sergeant. Infantry, United States Army. For
extraordinary heroism in action on 26 May 1944 near Carano, Italy. Early in the morning,
Technical Sergeant Robinson’s company launched an attack across a flat, grassy field which afforded
no cover. In order to advance, the company had to move through enemy artillery concentrations
and closely interlocking grazing fire from twenty enemy machine guns well-emplaced along a
deep ditch. Shortly after the attack started, a platoon leader was killed, and Technical Sergeant
Robinson, as Platoon Sergeant, immediately assuming command, ran to the front of his Platoon
to lead them in the attack. While advancing, he was struck in the head by shell fragments which
rendered him unconscious for approximately five minutes. Upon regaining consciousness, he was
bleeding profusely about the head and dazed, But though urged to return to the rear, he refused
all medical aid. Overtaking his Platoon, he ran from Squad to Squad, encouraging his men and
issuing orders for the final assault on the ditch. Because of the heavy fire, the strength of the
Platoon was considerably reduced. Firing his submachine gun, Technical Sergeant Robinson,
at the head of his Platoon, charged the enemy position, but as he leaped into the ditch, he was
struck by machine gun bullets. Weak and bleeding, he summoned all his remaining strength,
rushed several machine guns positions and emptied his gun at those Germans who remained.
Through his inspiring leadership, his depleted Platoon killed or captured. all the enemy in the
ditch. His gallant and aggressive spirit caused his Platoon to overcome a strongly defended enemy
position against heavy odds. That night as he was being evacuated, Technical Sergeant Robinson
was killed by an enemy mine, but his performance is a lasting symbol of the great personal
courage of the American combat infantryman, Entered military service from Capitan,
New Mexico. Next of kin: Mrs Martha E Robinson (mother) Tinnie, New Mexico.
From Mark W. Clark, Lieutenant General US Army, Commanding
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Lloyd W. Rogers Jr.
Carrizozo
Second Lieutenant, 27th Bombardment Group, 17th Bomb Squadron, Army. He
died on May 17, 1942, while a prisoner of war at Camp O’Donnell, Philippines.
132
World War II
Ollin A. “Ollie” Roper
Corona (officially recorded Lea County)
Sergeant, serial Number 38012331, Battery B, 200th Cavalry, Coast Artillery, Army. He was born November 3,
1914. He enlisted in 1941. He survived the Bataan Death March, but died July 14, 1942, while a prisoner of
war at Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp on central Luzon, north Philippines.
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134
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Frederick S. Sherman
Lincoln County
Captain, medical doctor, superintendent of nurses, serial number 0367966, Coast Artillery
Corps, Philippine Islands, Army. He died a prisoner of war. He was shot while trying to escape
the sinking Japanese prison ship Brazil Maru.
135
World War II
Joseph D. Storm
Glencoe
Private, Intelligence Service, General Patton’s Division, Army. He was wounded in the fall of 1944 in France.
He was killed in battle in Cologne, Germany, on February 25, 1945.
136
World War II
Sam Swan
Carrizozo
Private First Class, serial number 38104822, 359th Infantry, 90th Division, Army. He was killed in action on
September 8, 1944. He was buried in Lorraine, France, location C-26-68. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
137
World War II
George S. Torrez
White Oaks
Private, serial number 38012322, Battery E, 200th Calvary, Army. He was born May 13, 1911. He died on
July 27, 1942, at Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp. On July 13, 1985, George Torrez’s sister,
Mrs. Felis T. Salcido of Hondo, New Mexico, was presented at her home, by U.S. Army Colonel Gerald Schurtz,
a special award for her brother.
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World War II
141
World War II
Mervin J. Williams
Lincoln County
Corporal, serial number 38012361, 200th Cavalry Regiment, Army. He was killed in action on October 24,
1944, in the Pacific Theater. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
142
World War II
Gladney Glen “Glad” Zumwalt
Nogal
Technical Sergeant, B-24 Radio Operator and Bombardier, serial number 18068581, Headquarters Squadron,
346th Bomber Group /H/, Army Air Force. He and his eleven crew members went missing in action and were
proclaimed dead on March 28, 1943, while on a reconnaissance flight over the South Pacific.
143
Korean War
June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953
Thirty-seven thousand Americans died
145
Korean War
Jack Claunch
Carrizozo resident
Master Sergeant, Air Force. Served in World War II.
146
Korean War
“Former Carrizozoan on
Missing Superfort”
Master Sergeant Jack Claunch, 30,
Nowata, Okla., a former Carrizozo resident, is reported as a member of the
crew of the missing B-29 Superfortress
which is reported lost off the southeastern tip of Spain’s coast. The plane’s home
base: Walker Air Force Base, Roswell.
A three-nation air and sea search to
date has failed to locate the big bomber
which disappeared on a training flight
with 12 men aboard. It based at Lakenheath, England, Saturday morning and
was last reported over Almería, Spain.
Air Force officials announced the Superfort and its 12 man crew are normally stationed at Roswell with the 509th
Bomb Wing. The ship failed to return
from a round trip navigational flight
over the Mediterranean from the Royal
Air Force base at Lakenheath, England.
147
Korean War
Louis Otero
Capitan
Private, 65th Engineer Combat Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, Army. He was born January 1, 1932. He was
taken prisoner of war while fighting the enemy in North Korea on November 27, 1950, and died while a
prisoner on March 30, 1951.
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Korean War
David E. Hardy and
Edgar Warren Hardy*
Carrizozo
Both died prisoners of war in North Korea. They were reported by a fellow prisoner of war to have family in
Carrizozo, New Mexico. Therefore, they are both honored here. (If you are family, please contact the Lincoln
County Clerk’s Office.)
*February 2000 Department of Defense records show that David E. Hardy and Edgar Warren Hardy died as
prisoners of war during the Korean War. Neither individual has New Mexico as his state home of record.
149
Korean War
Jesse Petty
Carrizozo
Private, Army. He died October 23, 1951, of disease in Korea or Japan. He is buried at White Oaks,
New Mexico.
150
Korean War
151
Korean War
Felipe T. Sedillo
Tinnie / Picacho (officially recorded: Chavez County)
Private First Class, Company E, 35th Infantry, 25th Division, Army. He was born in 1930. He died of wounds
on March 31, 1951 in North Korea at twenty-one years old.
152
Korean War
153
Vietnam War
March 8, 1965 – April 30, 1975
Fifty-eight thousand Americans died. The average age
of the American soldiers who died was nineteen years old.
155
Vietnam War
Glen Alex Chavez
Glencoe
Private First Class, Army. He was born June 7, 1949. He was killed in action by an explosive device on
August 22, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam.
156
Vietnam War
Chester Donald Dale
Capitan
Quartermaster Two, Navy. He was born February 28, 1932. He was killed in action by an explosive device on
November 1, 1968, in Go Cong Province, Vietnam.
157
Vietnam War
Jerome Don “Donnie” Klein
Ruidoso
Private First Class, Army. He was born February 19, 1950. He died by an explosive device while missing in
Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, on March 24, 1971. The Ruidoso Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7072 is named
in his honor. He was awarded a Bronze Star Medal and a Purple Heart (posthumously).
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Vietnam War
Our Donnie Klein
Our Donnie gave his life
in a land so far away
that we might stay free
in the U.S.A.
Now Mom and Dad will
get a metal so fine,
but it won’t make up
for young Donnie Klein.
Lord, we all loved him so,
but he turned 18 and had to go,
to die in a foreign land,
for something we can’t understand.
Will the mothers ever have their say
to tell their sons to go or stay?
No, for the draft will always be
to send our boys across the sea.
Let’s pray that God can
make both sides understand
that we must end this senseless war
and live in peace forevermore.
It’s so sad and I hate it so
when our young men have to go,
and leave this land
to fight a war in Vietnam.
God, please make this cruel war end
and make our foe our friend.
Let them know we really care
and bring our boys back from over there.
Our Donnie gave his life
in a land so far away,
that we might stay free
in the U.S.A.
Now Mom and Dad will
get a metal so fine,
but it won’t make up for
young Donnie Klein.
(Written by Donnie Klein’s sister)
159
Vietnam War
Robert Gonzales Montoya
Ruidoso
Private First Class, Army. He was born August 26, 1947. He was killed in action from multiple fragmentation
wounds on October 1, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam.
160
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161
Vietnam War
George “Dody” Henry Nuñez
Picacho
Specialist Four, Army. He was born February 22, 1947. He was wounded from enemy artillery fire in Hua Nghia Province, Vietnam, on June 23, 1967. He died of wounds received on January 19, 1968.
162
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163
Vietnam War
John Sanders Oldham
Tinnie
Major, Marine Corps. He was born July 3, 1933. He was killed in action on June 11, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, when his CH-46A helicopter exploded. He was co-pilot of the CH-46A which was shot down,
exploded in the air, crashed, and burned. This was his first mission. All subsequent investigations determined
that all aboard were cremated as no remains were found. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
164
Vietnam War
165
Vietnam War
Russell “Rusty” Eugene Pesewonit
Mescalero (officially recorded Lawton, Oklahoma)
Private First Class, Marine Corps. He was born March 28, 1947. He was killed in combat on July 22, 1966, at
nineteen years old, in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam.
166
Vietnam War
167
Vietnam War
168
Vietnam War
Willie “Junior” J. Sandfer Jr.
Tinnie
Staff Sergeant, Army. He was born May 16, 1929. He was killed in action from multiple fragmentation wounds
on March 24, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam.
169
Vietnam War
Bennie Lee West
Ruidoso (officially recorded Roswell)
Corporal, serial number 218448, Marine Corps. He was born December 26, 1946. He was killed in action on
September 1, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
170
Vietnam War
171
Vietnam War
Wilmer J. Willingham
Corona (officially recorded Louisiana)
Warrant Officer One, 155th Assault Helicopter Company, 3BDE 25th Infantry, Army. He was killed in action
on November 30, 1966, shot down while piloting his UH-1D helicopter on a resupply mission for an element
of the 25th Infantry near Plei Djereng, Vietnam. Having crashed to the ground in flames, the aircraft had no
survivors.
172
Vietnam War
173
Vietnam War
Carlos Zamora Jr.
Carrizozo
Specialist Five, Army. He was born January 15, 1945. He was shot and killed by enemy ground fire on January
28, 1966, while a helicopter crew member. The Carrizozo Fire Station is named in his honor. He was awarded
a Purple Heart for wounds received in action and four Air Medals (First through Fourth Oak Leaf Clusters) for
meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight.
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Citation
Army Commendation Medal
By direction of the Secretary of the army, under the provisions of Army Regulation 672-5-1,
the Army Commendation Medal is awarded posthumously to Specialist Five Carlos Zamora Jr.,
RA18662042, United States Army, for meritorious and valorous service from 12 August 1965
to 28 January 1966, while serving the Republic of Vietnam as a crew chief on a UH-1D helicopter. During the cited period Specialist Five Zamora’s undaunted efforts at maintenance kept his
helicopter in such a high state of combat readiness, it was used in every major campaign in which
this unit has participated. Displaying intrepid courage he withstood repeated attacks on his helicopter during the campaigns of: Shining Bayonet, Plei Mei, Cleansweep, and Masher. On January
1966, during Operation Masher, near Bong Son, his helicopter was one of six selected to airlift
Company B, 2D Battalion, 7th Cavalry, to a landing zone perimeter called Landing Zone Four.
Enemy forces had the main body of the 2D Battalion, 7th Cavalry, pinned down and were unable
to render effective suppressive fire for the landing helicopters. On short final into Landing Zone
Four, the flight was violently attacked by deadly automatic weapons fire hitting five of the six
helicopter flights. Despite the expert use of his machine gun, Specialist Five Zamora lost his life
to enemy fire. His devotion to duty, intrepid courage, and valiant actions in contact with a hostile
force was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects distinct credit
upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
From an e-mail to the Zamora family from Chip Roberge:
Got your E-Mail today and I am certainly glad to have finally reached Carlos, or as we used to call
him in Vietnam, Sam’s, family. I have been trying for several years to try to reach your family but
with no luck. I originally had thought that Carlos had come from Albuquerque and had written
to several Zamora’s there but never got a response. My wife and I finally got a computer from our
children this past Christmas so it opened up a lot of new avenues for me to search. As I related in
my first letter, Carlos and another fellow by the name of Ron Coleman were my two best friends
over there and unfortunately I’m the only one who made it back. Ron Coleman was killed in
action on his second tour over there in 1968. The night that Carlos was killed, I am the one who
continues
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discovered that he had been shot. We had just returned from a mission in the area of Bon[g] Son,
South Vietnam, where we had been fighting North Vietnam regular army forces. Bon[g] Son is
located central coastal region of Vietnam, northwest of the coastal city of Qui Nhon. We had
returned after dark and had landed at the refueling point to refuel our helicopters for the next
days operations and upon landing, the crew chief of the aircraft would get out and refuel his
aircraft. After we had all landed, I noticed that Carlos hadn’t gotten out of his aircraft and was still
sitting strapped in to his seat behind his machinegun. When I went over to see what was wrong
with him, I found that he had been shot through the head and was dead. All I can tell you, and
I hope it will ease his mothers mind a bit, is that he had never felt a thing when he was shot and
never suffered any pain at all. He was killed instantly, and in fact the other crewmembers of his
helicopter didn’t even know he had been shot until after we had landed and I found him. I hope
that knowing that he didn’t suffer any pain or trauma will ease the pain on the family. All I can tell
you is that night, I stayed up all night crying like a baby because it was as if I had lost a brother.
We all loved and cared for Sam a lot and I never heard one person ever say anything bad about
Sam. I don’t exactly remember how we got to start calling him Sam, but everyone called him Sam.
I never heard anyone call him Carlos although we knew that was his name.
(Chip Roberge, July 16, 2000)
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Rick Simpson, San Patricio and his friend Bill McCall, both survived the Vietnam War.
Bill McCall in 1969 in Chu Lai.
Rick Simpson with shrapnel after an attack in 1969 in Da Nang.
Photos: Courtesy of April Simpson
Worldwide
U.S. Military Deaths
from Lincoln County and
the Mescalero Apache Tribe
1980 – 2000
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Worldwide Military Deaths, 1980 – 2000
Patrick Gene Griego
Fort Stanton
Sergeant, Army. He was born March 2, 1958. He died in an accident on January 7, 1981.
180
Worldwide Military Deaths, 1980 – 2000
Paul Anthony Herrera
Carrizozo
Staff Sergeant, Army. He was born July 20, 1972. He died in an accident on January 5, 1998.
181
Worldwide Military Deaths, 1980 – 2000
Randolph Thomas Kidd
Ruidoso
Seaman Recruit, Navy. He was born June 2, 1955. He died in an accident on February 6, 1982.
182
Worldwide Military Deaths, 1980 – 2000
Berch Tortilla
Mescalero
Private First Class, Marine Corp. He was born February 6, 1959. He died in an accident on July 16, 1981.
183
Worldwide Military Deaths, 1980 – 2000
Joseph Dustin Hunter Gall
Ruidoso
FR, Navy. SERVSCOLOM Great Lakes, Illinois. He was born December 25, 1983. He died in an accident at
nineteen years old on January 1, 2003.
184
Worldwide Military Deaths, 1980 – 2000
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Iraq War
187
Iraq War
Steven Michael Chavez
Hondo
Marine Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary
Force (out of Camp Pendleton, California), Marines. He died in a non-combat incident in Anbar Province, Iraq.
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Iraq War
189
Iraq War
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Citations
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he compiling of the above list was a joint effort. Many were involved. Much of the
information comes from friends and family of the men who died. Those most
prominent in the effort were Nathaniel Gentry, Office of United States Senator Pete Domenici,
Washington, D.C.; Roger D. Jorstad and Tom Campbell, Department of Defense, Washington
Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, Washington,
D.C.; Bataan Memorial Military Museum and Library, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, 87505, phone: 505-474-1670 (Jeronimo R. Padilla, MSG, director); Lynn S. Ditto,
constituent services representative; Jeff Bingaman, United States senator, New Mexico;
Mrs. Byrd, Senior Center, Corona, New Mexico; Buddie Guthrie, Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico;
Howard W. Henry and Ann L. Mossman, Albuquerque Public Library, Special Editions,
Albuquerque; Ruth Hammond and Peter Aguilar, co-publishers, Lincoln County News,
Carrizozo, New Mexico; Romeo Klein, Ruidoso, New Mexico; Peter J. Linder, author, archivist,
World War I, Ellicott City, Maryland; Colonel Thomas F. Stewart, Lincoln County Manager;
National Archives, College Park, Maryland; NARA web site http://www.nara.gov; Perry Joe
Parks, Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma, Hondo; James R. Pawlak, librarian, Eastern
New Mexico University, Ruidoso, New Mexico, pawlakj@enmu.edu;
Melvin Chavez, San Patricio, New Mexico; Juan Montoya, San Patricio,
New Mexico; Charlie Leslie, Capitan, New Mexico; Walter Patrick
Limacher, Hondo, New Mexico; Orlando and Orlinda
Lucero, San Patricio, New Mexico; Alfred McTeigue
and Bill McTeigue, Hondo, New Mexico; Albert Montes,
Hondo, New Mexico; Martha McKnight Proctor, former
Lincoln County clerk, current Lincoln County magistrate
judge, Division 1, Lincoln County Courthouse, Carrizozo,
New Mexico; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Richardson, Ruidoso,
New Mexico; Carol Hurd Rogers, San Patricio, New Mexico;
Dale Rogers, Roswell, New Mexico; J. W. Runningwater,
Mescalero, New Mexico; James Sanchez, Lincoln,
New Mexico; Shan C. Sutton, senior archivist, New Mexico
State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
June Tyree, Corona, New Mexico; Maggie Trujillo,
Capitan, New Mexico; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Zumwalt, Hondo,
New Mexico; and many, many more.
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Crosby, Alfred W. Americas Forgotten Pandemic: The
Influenza of 1918. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Morning Journal: B-1. 1918. Researched by Howard W.
Henry of 1500 Cliffside Court NW, Albuquerque,
New Mexico, 87105.
The Official Bulletin and its derivative Soldiers of the Great
War, Standard Report: selected pages. Researched by
Peter J. Linder of 3109 Ramblewood Road, Ellicott City,
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Peter J. Linder of 3109 Ramblewood Road, Ellicott City,
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Record Book of Men and Women of Capitan, New Mexico and
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Selected Listing of WWI Burials, Service Location State,
New Mexico; New Mexico State Records Center and
Archives, 1205 Camino Carlos Rey,Santa Fe,
New Mexico 87505, Adjutant Generals Files; World War I
Casualties, Listed alphabetically for the State of
New Mexico,(extensive records, photos, letters) 4 boxes.
How to Access World War II Casualty Lists on the
National Archives Website
1) Access the National Archives website at:
http://www.nara.gov.
2) Scroll down the page. Under “Research Tools,” click
on NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL).
3) Click on Search NAIL.
4) Click on NAIL Digital Copies Search.
5) You will see two “Enter Keywords” boxes. In the f irst
box, type War Casualties. In the second box, type
either Army (to access War Department lists ) or
Navy.
6) Click on the “Submit Search” button at the top of the
page.
7)You will see a form that contains “Hits Retrieved.”
8)Click on the “Display Results” button at the top of the
page.
9)You will see images of the covers of each state
booklet. Click on “View All Thumbnails” to see
thumbnail images of all the pages for a particular
State. Each thumbnail may be enlarged by clicking on
that particular page.
10)Please note: When printing individual pages from the
War Department list, you should set your printer to
“landscape” in order to accommodate the whole page
for Army lists. Navy list pages may be printed in the
standard portrait format.
National Archives, College Park, MD, NARA web
sitehttp://WWW.nara.gov; State Summary of War
Casualties from World War II for Navy, Marine Corps,
and Coast Guard Personnel from New Mexico.2.
(NWCTM-24-WW11CASNAVY-NM) http://merrimack.
nara.go:80/cgi-bin/starfinder/25928/standard.txt
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National Archives and Records Administration,
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001;
Wilbert Mahoney, Modern Military Records, Textual
Archives Services Division, NARA’s web site ishttp://www.
nara.gov; World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing,
State of New Mexico: War Dept June 1946, Lincoln
County. pg 6.: State Summary of War Casualties
(New Mexico ) U.S. Navy 1946, pg 2: World War II
Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air
Forces Personnel from New Mexico. 6. (NWCTM407-WWII CASARMY-NM) Lincoln County, pg 2 of 3.
http://merrimack.nara.go:80/cgi-bin/starfinder/25928/
standard.txt
Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters
Services, Directorate for Information Operations and
Reports; Correspondence, May 12, 1999,Additional
sources for researching veterans killed in wars can be
found on the Internet as follows; All Army: http://
www2.army.mil/cmh-pg/
Mr. Tom Campbell, staff of, Roger D. Jorstad, Director,
Statistical Information, Analysis Division, (703) 604-4576
The American Battle Monuments Commission,
Courthouse Plaza 11, Suite500, 2300 Clarendon
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22201.
New Mexico State Records Center and Archives,
1205 Camino Carlos Rey, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505,
Adjutant Generals Files, World War II,Scrapbooks.
Casualty Scrapbook.
Bataan Memorial Military Museum and Library,
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505,
505 474-1670: Jeronimo R. Padilla, MSG, Director.
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Books and documents reviewed:
Korean War
National Archives and Records Administration, Center for
Electronic Records: http:www.nara.gov/nara/electronic/
korvnsta.html
New Mexico State List - Sorted by Home of Record for
the Korean Conflict, http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic/
nmhrl
U.S. Military Personnel who died from hostile action
(including missing and capture) in the Korean War, 19501957 Listed by Home State, Then place, Then name.
Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters
Services, Directorate for Information Operations and
Reports; Correspondence, May 12, 1999,Additional
sources for researching veterans killed in wars can be
found on the Internet as follows;
Korean Conflict: http://www.koreanwar.org/
Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters
Services, Directorate for Information Operations and
Reports; Correspondence, April, 29,1999: enclosure,
1 pg., Korean Conflict US Military Deaths (Service
Members from Lincoln County, New Mexico), 1 man
listed, hometown unknown.
Bataan Memorial Military Museum and Library,
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505,
505-474-1670: Jeronimo R. Padilla, MSG, Director.
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Washington Headquarters Services,
Directorate for Information
Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway
Suite 1204, Arlington, Virginia 22202-4302
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Statistical Information, Analysis Division, 703-604-4576
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1205 Camino Carlos Rey, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505,
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loose in envelopes.
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Vietnam War
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nmhrviet.html
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Vietnam Conflict; U.S. Military Personnel who died
(including Missing and Captured Declared Dead) as a
result of the Vietnam Conflict, 1957-1995, Listed
Alphabetically by Home state, and there under
by Name as of November 1997.
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Suite 1204, Arlington, Virginia 22202-4302
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Conflict US Military Deaths,(Service members from
Lincoln County, New Mexico) 8 men listed.
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Services, Directorate for Information Operations and
Reports; Correspondence, May 12, 1999,Additional
sources for researching veterans killed in wars can be
found on the Internet as follows; Southeast Asia Conflict:
http://thewall-usa.com/
Bataan Memorial Military Museum and Library,
1050 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505,
505-474-1670: Jeronimo R. Padilla, MSG, Director.
Washington Headquarters Services,
Directorate for Information
Mr. Tom Campbell, staff of, Roger D. Jorstad, Director,
Statistical Information, Analysis Division, 703-604-4576
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1205 Camino Carlos Rey, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505,
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A gift copy of the Lincoln County and Mescalero Apache
Tribe, Honor List, has been presented to the Library of
Congress.
The Library of Congress, Preassigned control number,
Cataloging in Publication number is :2001 131332
American Gold Star Mothers Inc., article; compiled by
Cecilia Gutierrez Venable for Corpus Christi Public
Libraries; http://www.cclibraries.com/local_history/
goldstar/history.htm
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